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1. Re: New system quandry
JEShort01 Dec 20, 2013 7:11 AM (in response to Reel Inspirations)My suggestion would be to go with the 4930k system now.
For me, considering your situation, it even sounds like a no-brainer!
Why?
1) PCs are better aligned with the proper hardware to do video editing now and likely into the forseeable future.
Note: Apple owned the prosumer video editing space at one time, but those days are over. Steve Jobs was big on doing "end-to-end" solutions where Apple controlled all aspects of the hardware, software, codecs, etc. And with the iPhones and iPads they still do maintain a lot of control and those remain very compelling solutions where they compete. For video, composting, etc. however, PCs are arguably doing a lot better than Apple at all price-points to run Adobe video editing and other high-powered composting software. PCs provide dual-Xeon solutions now, affordable nVidia cuda GPUs, lots of drive expandability, etc. The list goes on and on.
2) There is always a newer faster technology that is months away. Today's PCs really rock for what you are doing.
3) If you go with a PC now, you can upgrade significant parts of it without throwing the whole system out. Apple will never allow this kind of partial upgrade during the life of your system.
Regards,
Jim
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2. Re: New system quandry
Reel Inspirations Dec 20, 2013 7:30 AM (in response to JEShort01)Yeah, that's how I'm leaning at this point, just wish ADK wasn't 4-weeks out on their systems :-)

